Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts - Troubled Paradise (Tour Edition) MEKONS Bearing the stamp of a

Bearing the stamp of a masterful storyteller who “observes the world with a clinically poetic eye” (The New York Times)

bringing piano and violin back together

Of the album’s composition

Originally released in 2002 to commemorate their 40th anniversary as a band

the songs became imagined vignette films playing behind closed

Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts - Troubled Paradise (Tour Edition) MEKONS Bearing the stamp of aTuk Smith is the kind of rock n roll ambassador you didnt think existed anymore. Punk maverick from rural Georgia, Biters frontman, producer and solo artist, hes seen the best and worst of a music industry in constant flux. By turns its left him critically acclaimed, poised for stadiums, dropped, burned out, back in the game and beloved by those for whom rock is still everything. Now based in Nashville, and with his own label Gypsy Rose Records, he